[Note: Colonel Albert S. Evans, the author of A La California (1872), was a close friend of New York Herald publisher Horace Greeley, famous for his “Go West, young man” declaration. What was Colonel Evans doing, exploring California, to the … Continue reading →

Story by June Morrall In the 1860s Colonel Albert S. Evans, author of A La California: Sketches of Life in the Golden State, reported on a very, very interesting dispute between an Indian and a Spaniard in Pescadero. At the … Continue reading →

[I wrote this in 2003.] When Colonel Albert S. Evans learned that the Steele Brothers Dair at Ano Nuevo had produced a huge two-ton cheese in the 1860s, the author insisted on meeting Rensselaer Steele, owner of the famous Cascade … Continue reading →